The largest coronavirus vaccination site in California will be located in the heart of Silicon Valley and home to the San Francisco 49ers.
The Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will serve as a mass vaccination room with an initial capacity of 5,000 shots per day when it opens early next week, eventually increasing to 15,000 per day, the 49ers said in partnership with Santa on Friday. Clara County announced.
“We recognize the urgent need for an effective and equitable vaccination effort for our community and are proud to work with the county of Santa Clara to bring this vaccination site online as quickly and efficiently as possible,” 49ers president Al Guido said in a statement. statement said. “We have made every resource available to us to meet this challenge to ensure that members of the community in which we live can be vaccinated safely and quickly every day.”
The Levi Stadium site will be managed by the Department of Public Health in Santa Clara County and open to all eligible residents. Earlier this week, the province announced that all residents aged 65 and over are eligible to book their appointments.
“The only way we’re going to get through this pandemic is together, so I’m glad to see this collaborative approach to getting our residents vaccinated on a large scale,” Susan Ellenberg, supervisor at Santa Clara County, said in a statement. said. “Our province has a history of the largest vaccination in California, in partnership with the 49ers, and is just another example of this.”
Although Levi’s Stadium is not the first sports venue in the state to be used as a vaccination site, it will be the largest once operational. In Southern California, Petco Park and Dodger Stadium are also used to distribute vaccines. When the Dodger Stadium site was launched last month, Los Angeles officials were hoping to reach a capacity of 12,000 shots per day.
In Oakland, Governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that the first large-scale federal vaccination site at the athletics home, the Oakland Coliseum, has begun.
The 49ers had previously offered the Levi’s Stadium for use by the country, but provincial officials, although receptive to the offer, said the biggest obstacle to firing guns was less a matter of distribution, but ‘ lack of supply. Although the site will open with a capacity of 5,000 shots per day, there are plans to increase the rate to 15,000 per day ‘as the vaccine supply increases’, according to the news release.
Now the organization’s offer is being established, with the largest vaccination site in California starting at its home early next week.